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“I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“Inseparable as sibs—strained as a couple.”
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
“You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask or a demon of his imagination, made little difference to Adam, He was petrified.”
― The Three Witches and the Master
― The Three Witches and the Master
“... we know where this will end,’ he says, gesturing his ageing body. ‘... I am after all nothing more than my roots – a typical Amunarainith...”
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
“I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
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